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>Call for Papers
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>"Signs" Special Issue:  "Globalization and Gender"
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>"Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society" seeks submissions for a
>special issue on "Globalization and Gender," slated for publication in
>Summer 2001. For this special issue, we will focus on feminist critiques
>of the prevailing ways in which globalization has been conceptualized.
>Since traditional scholarship on globalization has ignored gender
issues,
>feminist approaches provide new insights into the reconfiguration of the
>state, transnational economies, and cultural formations.  Whether these
>changes are due to what David Harvey has termed "time-space compression"
>or to the movements and flows of finance capital, goods, or labor,
>feminist scholarship and pedagogy are vital to understanding global
>processes and movements in a transnational moment. For example, feminist
>approaches to globalization might address: the emergence of women as a
new
>labor force; the rise of feminized service industries in many parts of
the
>world; the centrality of consumption practices; the emergence of
gendered
>social movements in relation to sexuality, religion, and ethnicity; the
>gendering of ecological activism; the practices of global media empires;
>the nature of feminist politics in a world of non-governmental
>organizations (NGOs) and transnational coalitions; and the relationship
of
>women and gender to new technologies of communication.
>       This special issue seeks submissions that address such topics as
>the relationship between gender and globalization, feminist critiques
and
>understandings of globalization, earlier forms of globalization in
>comparison and connection to contemporary processes, the gendered
>dimensions of new forms of global information and finance systems, the
>transnationalization of identity politics based on gender and sexuality,
>the globalization of race and multiculturalism, global and transnational
>women's and gender-related NGOs, and new forms of internationalism and
>nationalism. Above all, rather than analyses that simply add women or
>gender to the study of globalization, we seek essays that situate and
>historicize feminist knowledges as formative and integral to a variety
of
>global movements. We encourage the submission of essays that address
>pedagogical practice as well as research and we are especially
interested
>in interdisciplinary and collaborative approaches.  
>       The special issues editors are Amrita Basu (political science,
>Amherst College), Inderpal Grewal (women studies, San Francisco State
>University), Caren Kaplan (womens studies, University of California,
>Berkeley), and Liisa Malkki (anthropology, University of California,
>Irvine). Please submit articles (five copies) no later than October 31,
>1999, to 
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>Signs, Globalization and Gender 
>Box 354345
>C14 Padelford Hall
>University of Washington
>Seattle, WA 98195-4345.  
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>Please observe the guidelines in the Notice to Contributors printed in
the
>most recent issue of the journal.
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